Sentences with phrase «such as the priest»

Instead, they should use their reason and when in conflict ask a religious authority such as a priest or bishop.

Her subject's story is told mostly through long silences, showering to remove her deceased husband's blood from her hair, walking through Arlington Cemetery under overcast skies trying to find the perfect burial plot, and through her interactions with a variety of men, such as the priest (John Hurt) who will bury her husband or LBJ's adviser Jack Valenti (Max Casella) or Robert Kennedy (Peter Sarsgaard) or the journalist (Billy Crudup) she has agreed to tell her story to.

Set and filmed in a western Irish coastal town, the film has a most unusual first scene, including an acknowledgment of such as the priest (Gleeson) says «Certainly a startling opening line ``.

Relational dynamics of this sort have the effect of further complicating the victim's survival adaptations, especially when a superficially caring, loving or seductive relationship is cultivated with the victim (e.g., by an adult mentor such as a priest, coach, or teacher; by an adult who offers a child special favors for compliance; by a superior who acts as a protector or who can offer special favors and career advancement).

She states «If the couple has difficulty talking to each other directly, it's a good idea to see a counselor or clergy such as a priest or rabbi.

Not exact matches

If we listen to rcc apologists (such as CatholicMom), they'd like us to believe that the current and previous pope - a-dopes had pedophile priests under control.

It's high time the Catholic Church embraced the 21st century with regard to women's reproductive rights and women's rightful place in the church, such as serving as priests and bishops.

As such he is the direct supervisor of all priests in the Dioses of Rome.

Some priests still do the same things that they did in the medieval days... such as fathering children on other men's wives.

If, as priest - sociologist Andrew Greeley argues, such polarization has little affect on the average Catholic, it does profoundly afflict ministerial, theological and cultural elites within the church.

After all, it is argued, the Romans themselves did not appear to take it seriously (Vespasian's famous deathbed joke, «I think I am becoming a god» seems to indicate as much): it could only be believed by those who were either insane, such as Caligula, who went so far as to sacrifice to himself daily and made his beloved horse a high priest of his cult, or irredeemably barbarian and by implication, stupid, such as the Britons of Colchester who built an enormous temple to the Divine Claudius.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

It makes more sense to see that the people are tithing, but the priests are stealing the tithe, and as such, they are robbing God and robbing the whole nation.

At such times, it's as if I the priest - servant, step aside to let Christ the Lord act (not wholly accurate, because nothing would happen if I wasn't there).

Christians should burn their copies of the NT for the 2000 year old con job that has been perpetuated on them by popes, bishops, priests, ministers and evangelicals such as Osteen.

Appeal to authority on questions such as birth control, divorce and women priests «did not satisfy an educated people who wanted to be convinced with arguments».

We would expect to see greater levels of abuse amongst groups in which celibacy is a normal way of life (such as Catholic priests), and by extension lower levels of abuse in groups in which celibacy is unusual.

To young priests and seminarians of the first decades of the 21st century, he is the hero figure of the later decades of the 20th, and as such a priest and bishop for the modern era whose style and message, insights and vision are a model for them to follow, as well as a saint whose intercession they seek and to whose influence many attribute their discernment of a call to the priesthood.

There were three types of Man described: ones who chose celibacy to dedicate themselves to God's service, such as monks, priests, or nuns; those castrated by others, these are traditional eunuchs; and those who were «born that way.»

Like location: the starting point isn't «where would we like to live», but rather criteria such as access to a good priest and, of course, enough space to maintain family harmony.

A few Anglican priests, such as his hymn - writing brother Charles, joined these Methodists, but the bulk of the preaching burden rested on John.

The priest listens intently, and then asks questions, and in a productive confession (yes, priest friends of mine tell me, there are such things as unproductive and antagonistic confessions during which even a seasoned priest is discombobulated), there is then an often piercing and moving conversation.

The writer, as parish priest, has read such optional textbooks from Catholic schools in his own area, and is not making comments without actual knowledge.

A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion, gay marriage and women priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.

There is no such thing as popes, priests, and pastors.

Such matters might best be handled by someone who can speak from personal experience of a chaste homosexual life e.g. as one might hope, a priest.

We need not perhaps introduce the election of parish priests by the laity such as has been and still is the custom in the Catholic cantons of Switzerland, without the divine constitution of the Church being thereby endangered.

This guy is disgusting for making such comments but in Missouri, Bishop Finn said something just as stupid when confronted with photos a priest had taken of mostly little girls.

This is another consideration which might help to overcome the shortage of priests; for there might well be priests who would be suitable for such a Church of faith and have authority, even though they would be received into the clergy as mature men after a quite differently conceived training.

Finally, imagine that you noticed many abuses caused by the belief in witches, such as people giving 10 % of their crops to highly suspect priests to ward off witches, belief in witches and elves being used to deny the pollution you noticed building up in your village and laws being passed controlling how a woman must act while pregnant based on witchcraft.

But these people who were doing it all wrong were not qualified priests to be performing such sacrifices that allows the killing of an animal so Krishna, the original preceptor of the Vedas, came as Buddha and told them to forget the Vedas and live a life of non-violence (ahimsa) and to just follow his precepts.

Others who have been closely tracking these developments, such as the Detroit - based Opus Bono Sacerdotii, an organization of lawyers helping accused priests, estimate that more than a thousand have been removed.

He has followed up this dialogue with concrete steps on his own initiative, such as giving Society priests faculties to hear confessions and witness marriage, despite their unusual canonical status.

When the constitution of 1917 was drafted, therefore, «Catholic» representation was nonexistent, and the resulting document not only repeated earlier material restrictions on the Church (such as government ownership of all church property, civil registry of priests, and making marriage a civil matter) but also got in a symbolic lick or two (for example, religious garb was not to be worn in public; worship was to be only an indoor affair; alien priests were forbidden; and no religious labels were allowed for political parties).

Burleigh shows that the Catholic clergy who did collaborate» such as the renegade priests in Croatia and the notorious Monsignor Tiso in Slovakia» acted in spite of, not because of, their religion.

There are former priests, such as Dan Maguire of Marquette University, who, presenting themselves as Catholic theologians, have laboured mightily in the pro-abortion cause.

From this verse we can then determine that flint meant black in a way that those who do not follow the counsel of the priest and were on such a level of «scratching and biting» as were the brothers of Nephi could receive a curse of being exiled from the people of God and a transformation would come on them which would make them look unpleasant to those who kept the commandments of God so they would not want to be a part of their communities.

But they forget, hindu filthy Enoch hindu's ignorant by faith prayed to as their RAM, deity of hindu pagan origin was married to his sister to keep hinduism racism intact, or their other hindu sanatans, filthy shaman man god such as Plato, Pythagoras and Aristotle along with King James author of King James bible were young boys abusers by faith and followed by hindu's pagans of hindered gutter land india along with hindu priest of hindu pagan Catholicism, as a some thing of holy nature.

The monarchs in general either kept conveniently available a group of spiritual advisers or else paid such respect to the views of the hierarchy as to elevate the chief priest virtually into an important minister of the state.

«Like it or not, the archdiocese is canonically responsible for the financial care of a priest - even a priest who has committed such a horrible crime and sin such as clergy sexual abuse of a minor,» the statement said.

No wonder men of science, feeling understandably scorned by such tendencies, would construct their own path to progress, in competition with the path of faith, and invite the masses to follow them as dogmatically as any priest ever had.

As such, it was a better tabernacle which required both a better priest and a better sacrifice.

To have one such priest is sickening enough; to have as many worldwide is beyond what their righteous god, should he be there, should ever have allowed.

Vocations that were related in any way to the powers of evil — such as making idols, being a heathen priest, a user of magic verses, an enchanter, astrologer, diviner, soothsayer, juggler, mountebank or amulet - maker - had to be abandoned, and any lifestyle that led one into immorality was to be rejected.

In «Scandal Time III,» Richard John Neuhaus expresses in several places his concern for a now — elderly priest who is «repentant» and has «rendered decades of faithful service without a hint of suspicion» that he «pose [s] a threat to children or anyone else,» because such a priest may now «be thrown out as an abuser,» not «welcomed as a forgiven sinner to the company of forgiven sinners that is the Church.»

Equating modern churches, pastors and practices with ancient Jewish synagogues, temples and priests and practices (such as tithing to the Levites) seems to be done primarily for the purpose of raising money.

With the new «normalization» of homosexuality in the general culture, with the acceptance of that normalization by many priests and not a few bishops, and with consequences such as the sex abuse scandals, the Church simply can not afford to take the risks that were taken, frequently with the best intentions, in the past.

Following my time as an altar server I was asked by my parish priest to become an extraordinary minister of Holy Communion and felt honoured to be asked as I did not feel myself worthy of distributing the body and blood of our Lord at such a young age.

The words themselves mean «anointed one» and can refer to someone who has been specially chosen by God to fulfill a function or complete a specific task, such as a king (1 Sam 9:16; 2 Sam 2:4 - 7; 1 Kings 1:34 - 45; Isa 45:1), priest (Exod 28:41; 30:30), or prophet (Isa 61:1).

41:13; 43:13; 48:17) Such sentences in the priest's oracle elicit corresponding statements from the supplicant in his concluding expression of assurance in the Kiagelied, as, for example, «thou art my God» (Ps.